Opinion
Remembering Woody Guthrie, warts and all
Woody Guthrie, the legendary wandering minstrel of folk, seems to be having a moment. A new book from Sasquatch documents
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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Politics
Airbnb squeezing renters? We've seen this before
The Seattle Times reports that Mayor Ed Murray and City Councilmember Tim Burgess are proposing to crack down on Airbnb-style
Environment
The twisted logic of Ann Coulter and the Oregon 'patriots'
With the end of the occupation of eastern Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by right-wing extremists, bird watchers are
Mossback
How the West keeps people of color out of national parks
For those concerned about why people of color stay away from our national parks in droves, here's a
Mossback
'Jim Crow' no more in Washington
All of the "Jim Crow" names on Washington state’s map could be erased before the end of